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Quotes About Impression

De ce ne batem atâta capul? întreb? Parker. B?rbaÅ£ii oricum nu observ?. - Fiindc? ceea ce purt?m afecteaz? felul în care ne simÅ£im, cum ne comport?m, cum ne miÅŸc?m. Iar astea sunt lucruri pe care le observ?. În special miÅŸcarea. Îmbrac?-te, machiaz?-Å£i ochii. Vei ÅŸti c? ar??i bine, aÅŸa c? te vei simÅ£i bine. Ai s? te distrez mai tare.
~ Nora Roberts
Her voice was soft and flowing, and though he recognized it as Deep South, it seemed almost a foreign tongue after the coastal Maine cadence he'd grown used to. He wasn't a man to be pleased with having a magnolia blossom tossed on his doorstep. When she opened her eyes and smiled at him, Grant wished fervently he'd never opened the door.
~ Nora Roberts
perform." "I recall a performance
~ Nora Roberts
T]he Secretary of State wants to avoid giving the impression that while the United States is willing to intervene actively to protect its commercial interests, it is not willing to move on behalf of the Christian minorities." Dulles went on to complain about the agitation in the U.S. on behalf of Armenians, Greeks, and Palestinian Jews. "I've been kept busy trying to ward off congressional resolutions of sympathy for these groups.
~ Christopher Simpson
I've had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase," ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. "I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn't care.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are. However you describe yourself becomes proof that you're the ideal candidate. This is true in journalism, and in life.
~ Chuck Klosterman
But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things, the doorman said.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Parásito» no es la palabra adecuada, pero es la primera palabra que viene a la mente.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What importance should be given to details, in developing a subject?-- Remorselessly sacrifice everything that does not contribute to clarity, verisimilitude, and effect. Accentuate everything that sets the main idea in relief, so that the impression be colourful, picturesque. It's sufficient that the rest be in its proper place, but in half-tone. That is what gives to style, as to painting, unity, perspective, and effect. - Constantin Georges Romain Héger, teacher to Charlotte Brontë
~ Claire Harman
You said you didn't have experience with girls, but you sure seemed to know what you were doing up there." Jaime
~ Claire Thompson
The man was a somewhat seedy character. He might not actually have slept in his clothes, although the first impression was that he had. He clutched a threadbare cap with stubby, grimed fingers. The fingernails were rimmed with the blue of dirt.
~ Clifford D. Simak
She folded fat hands over a plump stomach and did her best to beam at him. The effect of the beam was spoiled by the wispy hair that straggled out from beneath her dowdy hat.
~ Clifford D. Simak
He wouldn't be remembered well.
~ Clive Barker
As you travel north across Ohio," Ohio State University dean Harlan Hatcher wrote in 1945, "you feel that you have been transported from Virginia into Connecticut.
~ Colin Woodard
Leave every lady with the impression of friendship, and each and every gentleman with an unrealistic hope of much more.
~ Victoria Alexander
Once you put a romantic image in someone's head, it's hard to get it out.
~ Vince Flynn
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
~ Virgina Woolf
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
~ Virginia Woolf
She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.
~ Virginia Woolf
I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.
~ Virginia Woolf
I took the print of life not outwardly, but inwardly upon the raw, the white, the unprotected fibre. I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.
~ Virginia Woolf
in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)
~ Virginia Woolf
You look, eat, smile, are bored, pleased, annoyed - that is all I know. Yet this shadow which has sat by me for an hour or two, this mask from which peep two eyes, has power to drive me back, to pinion me down among all those other faces, to shut me in a hot room; to send me dashing like a moth from candle to candle.
~ Virginia Woolf